Use when building, fixing, or improving ANY SwiftUI UI — views, navigation, layout, animations, performance, architecture, gestures, debugging, iOS 26 features.
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You MUST use this skill for ANY SwiftUI work including views, state, navigation, layout, animations, architecture, gestures, and debugging.
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some-auditoragent", read that auditor's file in this suite and follow it inline — the same procedure, needing only file search and read.Available here:
skills/swiftui-architecture-auditor.md,skills/swiftui-layout-auditor.md,skills/swiftui-nav-auditor.md,skills/swiftui-performance-analyzer.md,skills/textkit-auditor.md,skills/ux-flow-auditor.md. Homed in another suite:axiom-design/skills/liquid-glass-auditor.md.Agents that need Bash — builds, tests, simulators, crash symbolication — stay Claude Code-only; there is no inline equivalent for those.
| Symptom / Task | Reference |
|---|---|
| View not updating | See skills/debugging.md |
| View update still broken after debugging | See skills/debugging-diag.md |
Slow previews / building good previews / @Previewable / PreviewModifier / variant matrix | See skills/previews.md |
Preview API reference (#Preview, traits, modes, Development Assets) | See skills/previews-ref.md |
| Preview crashes / won't load | See skills/debugging.md (Preview Crashes section) |
| Hot reload / live editing / edit the running app on device | See skills/hot-reload.md |
| Navigation issues | See skills/nav.md |
| Navigation still broken after debugging | See skills/nav-diag.md |
| Navigation API reference | See skills/nav-ref.md |
| Layout breaks on iPad/rotation | See skills/layout.md |
| State lost on resize/rotation (scroll, selection, focus, drafts) | See skills/layout.md (State Survives the Transition) |
| Layout API reference | See skills/layout-ref.md |
| Performance/lag/slow scroll | See skills/swiftui-performance.md |
| Architecture/testability | See skills/architecture.md |
| Animation issues | See skills/animation-ref.md |
| Stacks/grids/outlines | See skills/containers-ref.md |
| Custom containers / List replacement (iOS 18+) | See skills/containers-ref.md Part 7 |
| Search implementation | See skills/search-ref.md |
| Toolbars, ToolbarItem, sheet button placement, customization | See skills/toolbars.md |
| Sheets, detents, popovers, fullScreenCover, presentation adaptation | See skills/presentations.md |
| Multi-column Table, sortable/resizable columns (iPad/Mac; collapses to first column in compact) | See axiom-macos (skills/swiftui-differences.md) |
Inspector panel (.inspector — trailing column in regular width, sheet in compact) | See axiom-macos (skills/swiftui-differences.md) |
| Gesture conflicts | See skills/gestures.md |
| iOS 26 features | See skills/26-ref.md |
These topics are part of the broader iOS UI domain but live in separate suites:
/skill axiom-accessibility/skill axiom-testingux-flow-auditor agentaxiom-swiftui vs axiom-performance: When UI is slow (e.g., "SwiftUI List slow"):
digraph swiftui {
start [label="SwiftUI issue" shape=ellipse];
what [label="What's wrong?" shape=diamond];
start -> what;
what -> "skills/debugging.md" [label="view not updating"];
what -> "skills/nav.md" [label="navigation"];
what -> "skills/swiftui-performance.md" [label="slow/lag"];
what -> "skills/layout.md" [label="adaptive layout"];
what -> "skills/containers-ref.md" [label="stacks/grids/outlines"];
what -> "skills/architecture.md" [label="feature architecture"];
what -> "skills/animation-ref.md" [label="animations"];
what -> "skills/gestures.md" [label="gestures"];
what -> "skills/search-ref.md" [label="search"];
what -> "skills/toolbars.md" [label="toolbars / sheet buttons"];
what -> "skills/presentations.md" [label="sheets/detents/popovers"];
what -> "skills/26-ref.md" [label="iOS 26 features"];
what -> "skills/previews.md" [label="slow previews / building good previews"];
what -> "skills/previews-ref.md" [label="preview API reference"];
what -> "skills/debugging.md" [label="preview crashes / won't load"];
what -> "skills/hot-reload.md" [label="hot reload / live editing"];
what -> "axiom-macos (skills/swiftui-differences.md)" [label="Table / .inspector\n(large-window density)"];
what -> "axiom-uikit (skills/uikit-bridging.md)" [label="UIKit interop"];
what -> "axiom-design (skills/app-composition.md)" [label="app-level (root, auth)"];
what -> "axiom-swift (skills/transferable-ref.md)" [label="drag/drop, sharing"];
}swiftui-architecture-auditor agentswiftui-performance-analyzer agent or /axiom:audit swiftui-performanceswiftui-nav-auditor agent or /axiom:audit swiftui-navswiftui-layout-auditor agent or /axiom:audit swiftui-layoutux-flow-auditor agent or /axiom:audit ux-flowliquid-glass-auditor agent or /axiom:audit liquid-glass (detects migration opportunities AND adoption-completeness gaps: variant discipline for media surfaces, glass-on-glass nesting, missing if #available gates, primary-action tinting, .tabRole(.search); scores ADOPTED / PARTIAL / NOT ADOPTED)textkit-auditor agent or /axiom:audit textkit (detects fallback triggers, glyph APIs that corrupt complex scripts, missing Writing Tools wiring, AND architectural gaps like missing fallback observation, SwiftUI wrappers dropping TextKit 2 properties, missing isWritingToolsActive guards; scores MODERN / MIXED / LEGACY)| Thought | Reality |
|---|---|
| "Simple SwiftUI layout, no need" | SwiftUI layout has 12 gotchas. skills/layout.md covers all of them. |
| "I know how NavigationStack works" | Navigation has state restoration, deep linking, and identity traps. skills/nav.md prevents 2-hour debugging. |
| "It's just a view not updating" | View update failures have 4 root causes. skills/debugging.md diagnoses in 5 min. |
| "I'll just add .animation()" | Animation issues compound. skills/animation-ref.md has the correct patterns. |
| "No architecture needed" | Even small features benefit from separation. skills/architecture.md prevents refactoring debt. |
| "I know .searchable" | Search has 6 gotchas. skills/search-ref.md covers all of them. |
| "I'll just add a Done button" | Sheets without Cancel break the HIG (updated 2026-03-24). .cancellationAction / .confirmationAction produce HIG-correct placement automatically — skills/toolbars.md Pattern 2 has the rules. |
| "A sheet is a sheet, nothing to configure" | Detents, compact adaptation, background interaction, and iOS 18 sizing decide how it behaves across window shapes. skills/presentations.md covers the adaptation traps (landscape sheets silently become full-screen covers). |
| "Previews are slow forever, I'll just use the simulator" | Five concrete fixes in skills/previews.md. Rule 4 (auto-refresh off) is 30 seconds and often halves perceived slowness. |
"I'll just write a wrapper view for @State in this preview" | @Previewable @State (Xcode 16+) eliminates that boilerplate. skills/previews-ref.md has the macro signature. |
| "I'll just rebuild and relaunch every time" | Hot reload edits the running app in place, state preserved. skills/hot-reload.md has the InjectionNext + Inject setup and the verify-via-xclog loop. |
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